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Last 15 Postings

Investigating the Controlling Factors of Coral Calcification (21 March 2019)
Using geochemical analyses, a team of Australian researchers found that coral calcification is mainly biologically-controlled, suggesting that this reef-building process is much more resistant to ocean acidification and warming than previously thought...

A Holocene Summer Temperature Proxy for Central Quebec (15 March 2019)
Over the past 8,000 years summer temperatures have fluctuated above and below the present mean, revealing the well-known climate anomalies of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age...

Plant Growth Database (15 March 2019)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for European Aspen (Randriamanana et al., 2018). To access the entire database, click here.

Declining Drought in the USA Over the Past Half-century (14 March 2019)
Climate model projections of more frequent and more severe drought events are not holding true for the conterminous United States, where data reveal a decline in these two parameters over the course of the past half-century...

Cycad Growth Enhanced Under Elevated CO2 (8 March 2019)
In the words of the authors of this paper, "the growth and physiological performance of cycads have been severely compromised by declining [CO2] during the Cenozoic Era, possibly contributing to the current rare and endangered status of this functional type." Thankfully for cycads, atmospheric CO2 is on the rise once again...

Temperature-related Human Mortality in Southern New England (6 March 2019)
Deaths attributable to cold weather are over two orders of magnitude larger than deaths attributable to warm weather. What is more, projections of future temperature increase due to global warming will bring a net savings in human lives...

Plant Growth Database (5 March 2019)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Rice (Wang et al., 2018). To access the entire database, click here.

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